Restaurant matching and filtering for use in a health tracking system

A non-transitory computer readable medium for operating a health tracking system, the computer-readable medium having a plurality of instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:

• provide a selectable list of restaurants to a user;
• in response to a user's selection of one of the restaurants on the list, generate first menu data, the first menu data comprising a plurality of records, each record being comprising a text string representative of the consumable item to which the record relates and nutritional data associated to the consumable item;
• providing a mechanism to enable the user to filter the first menu data according to at least one of the text string and/or the nutritional data thereof;
• and
• in response to the user's filter, generate second menu data.

A network apparatus configured to provide menu data to a user of a health tracking device, the apparatus comprising:

• an interface configured to communicate to the health tracking device;
• a storage apparatus;
• and
• a processor configured to execute a computer application comprising a plurality of instructions which are configured to when executed, cause the network apparatus to:
• generate menu data relating to one or more consumable items at a restaurant, the menu data including a first list of menu items and associated nutritional values;
• receive an indication from the user to filter the list of menu items to only those ones having a desired nutritional value;
• and
• generate a revised list of menu data for the restaurant based on the filter, the revised menu data including a second list of menu items that is a subset of the first list of menu items which have the desired nutritional value.